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Anthony Cope, MP, 1st Baronet Cope of Hanwell (1550 - 1614)

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Birthplace: Hanwell, Oxfordshire, England
Death: July 07, 1614 (64)
Kensington, London, UK
Place of Burial: Hanwell, Oxfordshire, England
Immediate Family:

Son of Sir Edward Cope, Esq. and Elizabeth Mohun
Husband of Frances Lytton and Anne Cope Paston
Father of Richard Cope; Elizabeth Cope; Sir William Cope, 2nd Baronet Cope of Hanwell; John Cope; Anthony Cope and 2 others
Brother of Ursula D'Oyley; Walter Cope, Kt., of Kensington; Elizabeth Cope; William Cope and John Cope

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About Sir Anthony Cope, MP, 1st Baronet Cope of Hanwell

  • COPE, Anthony (1550-1615), of Hanwell, Oxon.
  • Family and Education
  • b. 19 Mar. 1550, 2nd s. of Edward Cope of Hanwell by Elizabeth, da. and h. of Walter Mohan of Overstone and Wollaston, Northants.; bro. of Walter. m. (1) Frances (d.1601), da. of Rowland Lytton of Knebworth, Herts. by his 2nd w. Anne, da. of John Carleton, 4s. inc. William 3da.; (2) Anne, da. of Sir William Paston of Norf., wid. of Sir Nicholas Lestrange and Sir George Chaworth, ?s.p. suc. bro. 1566. Kntd. by 1593; cr. Bt. 1611.
  • Offices Held
    • Steward, duchy of Lancaster manor of Wollaston 1576; j.p. Oxon. from c.1582, sheriff 1582-3, 1591-2, 1603-4, dep. lt. from 1596; jt. (with Richard Fiennes) superintendent of recusants at Banbury castle from c.1589.
  • Biography
  • Cope had a remarkable career, missing only one Parliament between attaining his majority and his death over 40 years later. His grandfather and father were puritans and, three years after his father’s death, when Cope was 11, his mother married another, George Carleton. Cope eventually came into the modest estate of Hanwell, near Banbury, the borough for which he was returned to seven Elizabethan Parliaments, and in whose new charter of 1608 his name occurs. Active against recusants and ‘maypoles, morris dances, Whitsun ales and other pastimes’, Cope collected a number of puritan ministers in the Banbury district, appointed a puritan as curate of Hanwell church, and many were the ‘suspicious meetings about religion’ which the sheriff thought he had better report to the archbishop of Canterbury.
  • So far as is known Cope contributed nothing to the proceedings of his first Parliament, or to the first two sessions of his second. But his known views make it a fair assumption that it was he who spoke on 21 Jan. 1581 in favour of Paul Wentworth’s motion for a public fast (though D’Ewes calls him Cooke). It is also as Cooke that D’Ewes names him to the committee on slanderous words and practices, 1 Feb. On 16 Mar. Cope accused Speaker Popham of partiality, no doubt over the puritan plans for church reform. He missed the 1584 Parliament, and, in the next, on 21 Nov. 1586, spoke on Mary Stuart. It was on 27 Feb. 1587 that he earned a small place among the immortals by introducing the measure known then, since and still as Cope’s ‘bill and book’, showing in D’Ewes’s summary, ‘the necessity of a learned ministry and the amendment of things amiss in the ecclesiastical estate’. The text of Cope’s speech has not survived, but that of the bill has, as well as a great deal of contemporary and later comment. All that need be said here is that Cope was one of the spokesmen in Parliament for a group of puritans who were meeting in London at the time to direct the activities of their parliamentary caucus, composed of such men as Cope himself, Peter Wentworth, Edward Lewknor, Ralph Hurleston and Robert Bainbridge. What they wanted was a new Genevan prayer book, and a presbyterian church. What these five got (from 2 Mar.) was a spell in the Tower, which ended their activities in that Parliament. Cope evidently learned his lesson, for, as far as is known, he never spoke again in Elizabethan Parliaments, though he tried once, after an interval of ten years, and failed to catch the Speaker’s eye. That the Privy Council was wary of him is certain. On 15 Aug. 1591, worried that Wentworth had been staying with him, the Council ordered that his house be searched for anything that ‘may be intended to be moved in Parliament’. Of his general loyalty, however, there could be no question, for a few months later he was made sheriff and, more difficult to understand, knighted. Thus, to go back a year or two, there is no reason why he should not have been the Mr. Cope on the subsidy committee, 11 Feb. 1589, rather than his younger and more obscure brother. It was about this time that he was given the task of supervising the recusants in Banbury castle, a nice example of the Elizabethan principle of directing the energies of an extremist into approved channels.
  • Still, in the comparatively well reported last three Elizabethan Parliaments, Cope’s total activity amounted to membership of the following committees: rogues and sturdy beggars (12 Mar. 1593, 22 Mar. 1597), armour and weapons (8 Mar. 1597), marriages without banns (14 Nov. 1597), draining the fens (25 Nov. 1597), tellers and receivers (31 Jan. 1598), perjury (1 Dec. 1601), and the bill on church attendance (1s. fine on recusants) 2 Dec. 1601. He had recovered his nerve by the time the Commons was confronting James I, but that is another story. Cope died 23 July 1615. [Further biography follows for the Jacobean period]
  • GEC Baronetage, i. 36; Vis. Notts. (Harl. Soc. iv), 128; Somerville, Duchy, i. 591; Wood, Ath. Ox. i. 192; Strype, Annals, iii(2), p. 452; W. R. Williams, Oxon. MPs, 49-50; M. M. Knappen, Eliz. Puritanism, 292; A. Peel, Seconde Part of a Register, ii. 137; Neale, Parlts. ii. 148-65, 255, 345-6; Wards 9/138, f. 659; C142/145/53; Harl. 360, f. 65; CSP Dom. Add. 1547-65, p. 470; 1581-90, pp. 601-2; 1595-7, pp. 297, 318, 320; CPR, 1566-9, p. 395; APC, xiii. 164, 201; xxi. 392; xxiii. 106-7; xxviii. 40; CJ, i. 121, 134; D’Ewes, 282, 306, 405, 410, 411, 499, 553, 557, 561, 563, 591, 662, 664; Proc. Parl. 1610, ed. Foster; PCC 22 Cope.
  • Ref Volumes: 1558-1603
  • Author: P. W. Hasler
  • Notes
  • 1. Did not serve for the full duration of the Parliament
  • From: http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1558-1603/member/co...
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  • COPE, Sir Anthony (1550-1614), of Hanwell, Oxon.
  • b. 19 Mar. 1550,1 2nd s. of Edward Cope (d. 22 June 1557)2 of Hanwell and Elizabeth, da. and h. of Walter Mohun of Overstone, Northants.; bro. of Sir Walter Cope*.3 educ. G. Inn, entered 1606.4 m. (1) Frances (d.1599),5 da. of Rowland Lytton of Knebworth, Herts., 7s. 3da.;6 (2) 7 Apr. 1600,7 Anne (d.1637), da. of Sir William Paston of Oxnead, Norf., wid. of Sir Nicholas L’Estrange of Hunstanton, Norf. and Sir George Chaworth of Wiverton, Notts., s.p.8 suc. bro. 1566;9 kntd. c.1591;10 cr. bt. 29 June 1611.11 d. 7 July 1614.12
  • Offices Held
    • Steward, manor of Wollaston, Northants. 1576;13 sheriff, Oxon. 1582-3, 1591-2, 1603-4;14 j.p. Oxon. c.1584-1607, by 1614-d., Banbury, Oxon. 1608;15 commr. levies, Oxon. 1586,16 subsidy, 1589, 1595, 1600, 1608;17 constable (jt.) Banbury castle c.1589;18 dep. lt. Oxon. 1593-at least 1608;19 commr. oyer and terminer, Oxf. circ. by 1602-d.,20 sewers, Oxon. and Berks. 1604-12,21 aid, Oxf. Univ. 1609;22 collector of aid for Prince Henry, Oxon. 1609, for Princess Elizabeth 1613.23
    • Member, Virg. Co. 1609.24
  • Biography
  • Cope came from a cadet branch of a Northamptonshire family which first represented that county in 1397. His great-grandfather acquired the Oxfordshire manor of Hanwell in 1498.25 Cope himself inherited this property, and was visited there in August 1605 by James I.26 Remarkably, Cope sat in every parliament but one between his coming of age and his death. His main contribution to James’s parliaments was his insistence that religion be kept at the forefront of the political agenda. However, having been imprisoned in 1587 for proposing the programme of religious reforms that became known as ‘Cope’s bill and book’,27 he had become wary of controversy, though he remained a lifelong friend and associate of the puritan Peter Wentworth†.28
  • Cope was sheriff of Oxfordshire at the general election of 1604, and therefore ineligible to sit in Parliament. He yielded his former seat at Banbury to his eldest son, Sir William Cope*, and presumably supported the return of his brother-in-law John Doyley* as knight of the shire. Following the end of his shrievalty he managed to secure a seat for himself, being returned for the county at a by-election to replace (Sir) Lawrence Tanfield*, who had been appointed a judge on 13 Jan. 1606. He took up his seat by 12 Feb., when he was added to the committee for a conference on supply.29 He was one of three Members whose names were noted by the clerk on 15 Feb. in connection with the ministry and the establishment of true religion. However, it is not clear whether this signifies that they were being added to the committee named in January to consider the best means to provide for a learned ministry and counter non-residence.30 Cope was also placed on committees to consider bills to improve ecclesiastical government (25 Feb.), prevent pluralism and non-residence (to which he was the first named member, 5 Mar.) and restore deprived ministers (7 March).31 His predominant interest in religious measures is reflected by the ‘Parliament Fart’ satire, in which he ‘prayed to God’, that the fart was ‘no bull for the pope’.32
  • In a supply debate on 14 Mar. Cope declared that ‘because many good bills are in the House, and more will come’, grievances should be redressed before there was any grant of subsidy.33 On the following day several grievances were presented, and Cope was one of those who spoke forcefully on the first of them, the deprivation of those ministers who had refused to conform to the 1604 Canons.34 On 27 Mar. he moved that those grievances which were ready should be ‘put into form; and thereupon a conference to be desired with the Lords, and to proceed with petition to His Majesty’.35 His other committees included those on bills for the better execution of penal statutes (27 Mar.), the regulation of ‘tippling houses’ (3 Apr.), the abolition of patronage at parliamentary elections (3 Apr.), and the punishment of non-communicants (7 April).36 He opposed the reading of the subsidy bill on 9 May ‘until the grievances were read’, and three days later complained that conferences had grown ‘so long and wearisome’ that it was needful to allow Members to be seated, ‘for we stay long before their lordships come; and if we depart before the conference be ended, we offend’; he added ‘many of us that are old cannot stand so long but we shall fall down’.37 He was among those ordered to prepare and present to the king a petition on ecclesiastical grievances on 14 May.38
  • The main business of the third session was the king’s project for the Union with Scotland. On 24 Nov. 1606 Cope moved that the Instrument of the Union should be returned to the Lords, whereupon he was ordered to attend a conference on the following day.39 With his brother Sir Walter he was named to the committee to consider the bill ‘for the better continuance of the fame and memory of noble and worthy persons deceased’ (26 November).40 He was a member of the committee for a bill to control the ecclesiastical courts, and spoke for this measure at its third reading on 6 December.41 He was also named to committees for bills against unlicensed alehouses (3 Dec.) and for the reformation of abuses in the Marshalsea court (10 December).42 On 5 Mar. 1607, at the third reading of another ecclesiastical measure, the bill in restraint of canons, he pointed out that Queen Elizabeth had ‘stayed her hand from giving life to any of the canons during her time, lest it might stir or grieve her people’s hearts’.43 He helped manage a conference on the Union on 7 Mar., taking responsibility with Sir George More* for expounding a problem detected in the wording of the Instrument involving sheriffs and magistrates.44 Shortly afterwards he was named to a sub-committee to consider the inconvenience of ‘the long and painful standing’ at conferences.45
  • When Speaker Phelips fell ill late in March 1607, Cope was one of those appointed to consider precedents for procedure during his absence.46 On 28 Mar. he successfully moved postponement of a conference on the Union until after the Easter recess, ‘the House being so small and empty’.47 He opposed a bill introduced by Sir Robert Wingfield* on 30 Apr. and drafted before the Easter recess by the lawyers on the committee for the reform of the Marshalsea court.48 On 2 May, during the third reading debate on an explanatory bill concerning the ministry, he spoke of John Dod, rector of Hanwell, identified in the Journal as ‘Sir Anthony Cope’s preacher’, who had recently been deprived.49 Cope was among those instructed to draft a petition against Catholics and in favour of a preaching and resident ministry (18 May), and to consider a bill to abolish the Court of High Commission (26 June).50 He was also named to the committee to consider a bill for the better attendance of Members (28 May).51 On 5 June he spoke on the clause relating to witnesses in the bill to annul laws hostile to the Scots, although his position only became clear four weeks later, after he had helped to prepare a conference on the bill.52 He argued on 29 June that it was wrong ‘to refuse every lewd fellow, for most of them can say more than any other man. To refuse such, a notable wrong in the jury. The jury unfit, of all other, to choose the testimony’.53 He was appointed on 19 June to search the Journal for questions of privilege raised during the Parliament,54 and on 23 June acted as a teller against a private bill concerning the legacy of the 5th earl of Derby.55
  • Outside Parliament, in June 1607, Cope joined with his brother and others in what Chamberlain later called ‘a great bargain with the king’ for the purchase of chantry lands and parsonages to the value of £32,000.56 It may perhaps be taken as a sign of hypocrisy that despite Cope’s frequent exhortations against non-residence and pluralism he was eager to profit from the sale of rectories, albeit as a partner in a syndicate organized by his more- worldly sibling.57 Dudley Carleton* observed in August 1607 that many of the ‘puritan Parliament men’ had been put out of the commission of the peace, ‘and if Sir Anthony Cope hold in he hath good luck, for he was the foreman in my lord chancellor’s list to be put out’.58 If Cope was indeed removed from the Oxfordshire bench, it might explain why he briefly became a magistrate for the borough of Banbury (which had power to appoint its own justices) in 1608.
  • When the fourth session met in 1610, Cope was named to a committee to consider two bills against pluralism and non-residence (19 Feb. 1610).59 In debate on Dr. Cowell’s Interpreter, a book that had outraged many Members by stressing the absolute powers of the king, Cope argued darkly on 24 Feb. that Cowell had confederates, ‘whether from beyond sea or here’.60 On 20 June he spoke in favour of legislation against swearing, and on 3 July he was among those appointed to draft the petition against impositions.61 Three days later he was involved in interrogating an informer, William Udall, who had offered information concerning the whereabouts of priests in hiding.62 After twice urging the House to clarify its position on the Great Contract, he helped to prepare for a conference on the subject on 19 July.63 He is not mentioned in the records of the fifth session.
  • In 1610 Cope received a lease of woods in Whittlewood forest and a grant of the manor of Bruern, Oxfordshire.64 He was already an investor in the Virginia Company, and in 1611 he bought lands in Ulster, though it was later reported that the house he had built in Omagh fell down and his acres in Cloghor remained uncultivated.65 He probably entertained the king at Hanwell again in August 1612, and in October he prepared Banbury castle for the reception of Lady Stonor and other Catholic prisoners.66
  • Cope was returned to his final Parliament in 1614, when he served as senior knight of the shire for Oxfordshire. At the age of 74, he was one of the oldest Members in the House. On 5 May he opposed putting supply to the question, saying that although ‘the king’s part might carry it by voices, yet it would not be so honourable for the king to have one negative voice’.67 Two days later he recommended that the judges should set an example by observing the Sabbath while on circuit.68 On 9 May he was named to the committee to consider the bill for confirmation of Thomas Sutton’s charitable foundation, the Charterhouse.69 When his brother Sir Walter’s election for Stockbridge was questioned that same day, Cope demanded that the patron of the borough, Sir Thomas Parry*, chancellor of the Duchy and the only Member in the House older than Cope himself, should be heard in his own defence.70 On 12 May he made ‘a long and good speech’ on yet another bill against non-residence and pluralism, which practices he likened to ‘Hydra’s heads’, as ‘they have the more increased’. Drawing upon his experience of over 40 years in the Commons, he claimed that there were ‘as many non-residents now as in the beginning of Queen Elizabeth’s time’, and declared that ‘a soul-murthering non-resident [is] as dangerous to the soul as a murtherer of the body to it’. He ended by imploring the House to petition the king to take action and not to dissolve the Parliament until he had done so, for ‘the Parliament [is] the only fit time’.71 He was the first Member named to the committee to consider the bill.72 On 23 May he objected to the petition against baronets, which he termed ‘a libel’, saying that ‘it would but stir up combustions among the gentlemen in this time of many important businesses’.73 Sir Jerome Horsey* mockingly retorted that he ‘speaketh for his penny’, since Cope had been one of the first to buy the title of baronet himself in 1611, and his brother had been involved in handling the sales.74 When a committee was named, Cope complained that all the Members who were baronets had been excluded.75 He was twice appointed to committees to consider what should be done about Bishop Neile’s charges of sedition against the Commons (25 May, 1 June), and to the committee to consider a bill against the ex officio oath (31 May).76 With several of his fellow puritans he spoke in favour of the unsuccessful proposal that the House should sit on Ascension Day.77
  • On 9 June, two days after the dissolution of the Addled Parliament, Cope made his will, ‘being sick in body’. Although he made generous provision for his three younger sons, he reportedly left debts of over £20,000, some of which were incurred on behalf of his brother.78 John Dod was to have ‘the house that he dwells in if he be driven out of his ministry’. Cope died on 7 July 1614 at his brother’s Kensington residence, and was buried at Hanwell under an alabaster monument.79 Robert Harris preached the funeral sermon, in which he praised Cope as ‘a chaste husband, a tender father, a religious magistrate, a kind neighbour, a good churchman, a good statesman’.80 He was succeeded by his eldest son and heir, Sir William Cope.
  • Ref Volumes: 1604-1629
  • Authors: Alan Davidson / Rosemary Sgroi
  • Notes
  • etc.
  • From: http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1604-1629/member/co...
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  • Sir Anthony Cope, 1st Bt. was born in 1549. He was the son of Edward Cope and Elizabeth Mohun.1 He married Anne Paston, daughter of Sir William Paston and Mary Clere.2 He died in 1615. He was buried on 23 July 1615.
  • Sir Anthony Cope, 1st Bt. was created 1st Baronet Cope, of Hanwell, Oxfordshire in 1611.
  • Children of Sir Anthony Cope, 1st Bt.
    • Elizabeth Cope+3
    • Sir William Cope, 2nd Bt.+4
    • Anna Cope5
  • Citations
  • [S15] George Edward Cokayne, editor, The Complete Baronetage, 5 volumes (no date (c. 1900); reprint, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 1983), volume I, page 174. Hereinafter cited as The Complete Baronetage.
  • [S37] Charles Mosley, editor, Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes (Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003), volume 1, page 1289. Hereinafter cited as Burke's Peerage and Baronetage, 107th edition.
  • [S37] Charles Mosley, Burke's Peerage and Baronetage, 107th edition, volume 1, page 1363.
  • [S34] Peter Townend, editor, Burke's Peerage and Baronetage, 105th edition (London, U.K.: Burke's Peerage Ltd, 1970), page 640. Hereinafter cited as Burke's Peerage, 105th ed.
  • [S37] Charles Mosley, Burke's Peerage and Baronetage, 107th edition, volume 2, page 2292.
  • From: http://www.thepeerage.com/p2973.htm#i29723
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  • Sir Anthony Cope (1548?–1614) was an English Puritan Member of Parliament.
  • He was a grandson of Anthony Cope (died 1551) the author. He was member of Parliament for Banbury in seven parliaments (1571–83 and 1586–1604), and then represented Oxfordshire from 1606 until 1614. He served as High Sheriff of Oxfordshire in 1581, 1590, and 1603.
  • Cope was imprisoned in the Tower of London from 27 February until 23 March 1587 for presenting the Speaker of the House of Commons with a Puritan revision of the Book of Common Prayer and a bill abrogating existing ecclesiastical law. Elizabeth I knighted Cope in 1590 and James I made him a baronet on 29 June 1611. Cope entertained James I at Hanwell, Oxfordshire in 1606 and 1612. Cope died in July 1614 and is buried at Hanwell.
  • Family
  • He married
  • Frances Lytton, by whom he had 4 sons and 3 daughters, and
  • Anne Paston, who had been twice a widow.
    • His son Sir William Cope, 2nd Baronet was also MP for Banbury.
    • A later line of Cope baronets of Bramshill, Hampshire, descends from Anthony, Sir Anthony's second son.
  • His younger brother was Walter Cope, a government official.
  • References
  • "Cope, Anthony". Dictionary of National Biography, 1885–1900​. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
  • From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_Anthony_Cope,_1st_Baronet
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  • Anthony COPE of Hanwell (1st Bt.)
  • Born: 1549
  • Died: Jul 1614
  • Buried: Hanwell Parish Church, Hampshire, England
  • Father: Edward COPE
  • Mother: Elizabeth MOHUN
  • Married 1: Frances LYTTON (dau. of Rowland Lytton and Anne Carleton)
  • Children:
    • 1. William COPE (2º Bt.) (b. ABT 1577 - d. 2 Aug 1637) (m. Elizabeth Chaworth)
    • 2. Richard COPE
    • 3. Anthony COPE
    • 4. John COPE (b. 1590) (m. Elizabeth Sheffield)
    • 5. Mary COPE (m. Henry Champernowne)
    • 6. Anne COPE
    • 7. Elizabeth COPE (m. Sir Richard Cecil)
    • 8. Richard COPE (m. Anne Gardiner)
    • 9. John COPE
  • Married 2: Anne PASTON 1602
  • From: http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/Bios/AnthonyCope2.htm
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  • Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, Volume 12
  • COPE, Sir ANTHONY (d. 1551), author, second son of William Cope of Hanwell, Oxfordshire, cofferer to Henry VII, by his second wife Joan, daughter of John Spencer of Hodnell, Warwickshire, was a member of Oriel College, Oxford, but does not appear to have graduated. After leaving Oxford, he travelled in France, Germany, and Italy, visiting various universities, and became ‘an accomplished gentleman,’ writing ‘several things beyond the seas,’ which, Wood says, are spoken of in an epigram made by Spagnoli, or, as he was called, Johannes Baptista Mantuanus. This epigram was seen by Bale, but appears now to be lost. At the age of twenty-six he succeeded to his father's estates, inheriting an old manor house near Banbury called Hardwick, and the mansion of Hanwell left incomplete by his father, which he finished, and which is described by Leland as ‘a very pleasant and gallant house.’ In 1536 he had a grant of Brook Priory in Rutlandshire, which he afterwards sold, and bought considerable property in Oxfordshire. He was engaged in a dispute with the vicar of Banbury in 1540, and received the commendation of the council for his conduct. He was first vice-chamberlain, and then principal chamberlain to Catherine Parr, and was knighted by Edward VI on 24 Nov. 1547, being appointed in the same year one of the royal visitors of Canterbury and other dioceses. In 1548 he served as sheriff of Oxfordshire and Berkshire. He died at Hanwell on 5 Jan. 1551, and was buried in the chancel of the parish church. He married Jane, daughter of Matthew Crews, or Cruwys, of Pynne in Stoke English, Devonshire, and by her had a son Edward (who married Elizabeth, daughter of Walter Mohun of Wollaston, Northamptonshire, and had two sons, Anthony and Walter [q. v.]), and a daughter Anne, wife of Kenelm Digby of Drystoke, Rutlandshire. He wrote: 1. ‘The Historie of the two moste noble Capitaines in the Worlde, Anniball and Scipio … gathered and translated into Englishe out of T. Livius and other authorities’ (black letter), T. Berthelet, London, 1544, 4to, also in 8vo 1561, 4to 1568 with date of colophon 1548, 8vo 1590 (all in the British Museum), with three stanzas prefixed by Berthelet, and dedicatory preface to the king, in which reference is made to ‘youre most famous subduynge of the Romayne monster Hydra.’ 2. ‘A Godly Meditacion upon XX. select and chosen Psalmes of the Prophet David … by Sir Anthony Cope, Knight’ (black letter), J. Day, 1547, 4to, reprinted with biographical preface and notes, 1848, by William H. Cope. Among the manuscripts at Bramshill are two ascribed to Cope—an abbreviated chronology and a commentary on the first two gospels dedicated to Edward VI.
  • Sir Anthony Cope (1548?–1614), Cope's elder grandson, high sheriff of Oxfordshire (1581, 1590, and 1603), represented Banbury in seven parliaments (1571–83, 1586–1604), and Oxfordshire (1606–14). He was committed to the Tower (27 Feb. to 23 March 1586–7) for presenting to the speaker a puritan revision of the common prayer-book and a bill abrogating existing ecclesiastical law. He became a knight (1590) and a baronet (29 June 1611); twice entertained James I at Hanwell (1606 and 1612); married (1) Frances Lytton, by whom he had 4 sons and 3 daughters, and (2) Anne Paston, who had been twice a widow; died July 1614, and was buried at Hanwell. The present baronet, Sir Anthony Cope of Bramshill, Hampshire, descends from Anthony, Sir Anthony's second son.
*From: [http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Cope,_Anthony_%28DNB00%29 http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Cope,_Anthony_(DNB00)]
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1550
March 19, 1550
Hanwell, Oxfordshire, England
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1577
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1590
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July 7, 1614
Age 64
Kensington, London, UK
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Age 64
Hanwell, Oxfordshire, England
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1932
December 17, 1932
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